IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1615: Networks and Neighbours, VI: Three Views of Empire and Kingdom - Byzantium, Denmark, and Norway
Thursday 10 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Networks & Neighbours Network |
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Organisers: | Tim Barnwell, School of History, University of Leeds / Kısmet Press, Leeds Jason Berg, School of History, University of Leeds Ricky Broome, Leeds Institute for Clinical Trials Research (LICTR), University of Leeds Michael J. Kelly, School of History, University of Leeds / Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Moderator/Chair: | Hans-Werner Goetz, Historisches Seminar, Universität Hamburg |
Paper 1615-a | The Roman Empire in the 6th Century: Considerations on the 'Fall of Rome' and 'Reconquest' according to the Gothic War (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Political Thought |
Paper 1615-b | The 'Thematic of the Counselor' in the Gesta Danorum and the Strengthening of the Danish Hegemony in the Medieval Baltic Area (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Political Thought |
Paper 1615-c | The Spear, the Sword, and the Axe: St Michael the Archangel, St Óláfr and the Northern Crusades (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy |
Abstract | This session aims to analyse historical and historiographical aspects of the Byzantine Empire, Scandinavia and the Baltic frontier in the Middle Ages. The foci for investigation are the exercise of power, legitimacy, aristocratic perspectives and the involvement of churchmen in political affairs. Likewise, the context of the production of history in both a narrow and a broad sense is not neglected. In short, we are concerned with hegemony and power in three different historical moments. Of course, the research finds both similar, general issues and very different, more localised problems in each case study. |